Norman Cousins

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.